> -----Ursprungligt meddelande----- > Från: IBM Mainframe Discussion List > [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] För Tom Marchant > Skickat: den 2 november 2009 18:42 > Till: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu > Ämne: Re: SV: SV: An Alternative Modest PARM Proposal > > On Mon, 2 Nov 2009 18:14:38 +0100, Thomas Berg wrote: > > >But obviously not a *backward* compatibility problem ? > >And the main problem here, as I have understood the > discussion, is the > >limit of 100 bytes through JCL PARM. > >And that is sort of "another format" as I see it. > > > >As the problem is (old?) programs that cannot cope with longer parms > >than 100 bytes, among them IBM module apparently, that's the problem > >that needs to be solved. > >So we cannot avoid a somewhat ugly change of the JCL PARM format. > > There are two problems. > > 1. PARM on the EXEC statement can not be over 100 characters.
Well, the idea was to change exactly that... > 2. Some programs behave poorly and will have problems with a > PARM longer than 100 bytes. ..And the idea was also to solve that problem... :) > > In attempting to solve these problems, we should consider > that some programs work just fine with longer PARMs in the > same format as provided by JCL. We should not break these programs. > > -- > Tom Marchant > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access > instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the > message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at > http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html Regards, Thomas Berg __________________________________________ Thomas Berg Specialist IT-U SWEDBANK > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
